3 ms·

That would be the dream. Do you know of any major apps using elixir besides telecom?

_mlbt 1y ago
There are several companies that are known to use elixir in production... https://elixir-lang.org/cases.html https://elixir-lang.org/cases.html
- throwawaymaths 1y ago
  Tubi (relevant), Tvlabs, pagerduty, divvy All not on the list. There's also the legendary bleacherreport abandoning elixir and totally shooting themselves in the foot. Several fintech companies moved off - brex, ramp. I think for brex they were told by VCs to hire XYZ CTO and the CTO couldn't elixir. Hilariously I ran into ramp people totally in the wild who complained that "they couldn't find elixir devs". I told them "you just randomly ran into one". I think their hiring processes were likely broken, but what's new in silly valley?
  - _mlbt 1y ago
    I don't understand the fixation on hiring $LANGUAGE devs. If you can't find any developers using your current stack, pay for a course or a book for them and train them on it. Training a competent developer to use a new programming language has to be easier, cheaper, and faster than rewriting your entire software stack.
    - throwawaymaths 1y ago
      If you're a cto hired in to a company you need to make your mark somehow.
  - jerf 1y ago
    You can always find stories of people moving off of stacks. Sometimes they just legitimately evolved in a direction the stack wasn't the best solution for. Sometimes they should never have picked the stack in the first place. Sometimes a new leader came in who had preconceived notions that the company needed to conform with. You really have to look at the specifics of the story to know if it's relevant to you. In my very opinionated opinion, it's actually reasonably uncommon for me to read a story of someone leaving a stack and not classifying it as one of the things I listed above. Of the cases I would consider "legitimate", it's usually a performance issue; some languages and runtimes are just intrinsically slower than others, or at least, intrinsically slower without an unrealistic amount of effort. (Elixir would be middling here. BEAM is kind of between the dynamic scripting languages and the compiled languages. The interpreter is simple enough that it can run much faster than the dynamic scripting languages but it would be completely unacceptable performance for any compiled language. You can run out of performance in BEAM, but it does take a system that needs performance and some growth to get there.) The rest are probably complexity explosion of some framework, and this is almost always a UI framework problem.
  - luckywatcher 1y ago
    Divvy still uses Elixir extensively. I use to work there and still have many contacts there.
    - lytedev 1y ago
      Currently work here and we're definitely still building and supporting Elixir applications and enjoying it!
    - throwawaymaths 1y ago
      Thanks. Updated. Something about the best way to find an answer is to write an incorrect answer on the internet! ;-)
paradox460 1y ago
PagerDuty, Pinterest, TheRealReal, Discord, Cars.com, Bleacher report
- giancarlostoro 1y ago
  Discord, Facebook Messenger iirc was ejabberd and I think Google Talk was at one point? WhatsApp was ejabberd too iirc.
  - paradox460 1y ago
    ESPN also uses it, iirc for their sportsbook system
  - fouc 1y ago
    Discord was Elixir (and some Python) from the beginning. WhatsApp started with ejabberd though.
cultofmetatron 1y ago
my startup is using elixir in production for the last 5 years. we are a cloud based restaurant POS. no regrets. the ecosystem has been pretty solid for everything we've wanted to do. Stability/performance has been very good. also: if you're looking for a high profile startup using elixir, supabase is almost entirely elixir and discord uses it for some critical parts.
- rched 1y ago
  Are you willing to share the name of your startup?
  - cultofmetatron 1y ago
    https://blinqme.com/ https://blinqme.com/
atonse 1y ago
We’ve been running elixir in production since 2017. During the pandemic, our elixir app sent/received 45 million text messages, helped schedule 1.5 million vaccination appointments, and a few million COVID testing appointments. It all scaled and performed flawlessly. Any bugs were our fault :-)
fridder 1y ago
Cars.com did a pretty extensive rewrite to Elixir
vishalontheline 1y ago
OkNext.io is built using Elixir and Phoenix framework, if you're considering building a Web App and looking for examples.
ettomatic 1y ago
At the BBC we use Elixir quite extensively. I'll talk about this at ElixirConfEU in a few days if you are interested.
victorbjorklund 1y ago
Cars.com, Discord, Supabase are some of the top of my head. And of course Whatsapp is Erlang (which is same thing but with, imo, more ugly syntax)

There are several companies that are known to use elixir in production... https://elixir-lang.org/cases.html https://elixir-lang.org/cases.html

throwawaymaths 1y ago
Tubi (relevant), Tvlabs, pagerduty, divvy All not on the list. There's also the legendary bleacherreport abandoning elixir and totally shooting themselves in the foot. Several fintech companies moved off - brex, ramp. I think for brex they were told by VCs to hire XYZ CTO and the CTO couldn't elixir. Hilariously I ran into ramp people totally in the wild who complained that "they couldn't find elixir devs". I told them "you just randomly ran into one". I think their hiring processes were likely broken, but what's new in silly valley?
- _mlbt 1y ago
  I don't understand the fixation on hiring $LANGUAGE devs. If you can't find any developers using your current stack, pay for a course or a book for them and train them on it. Training a competent developer to use a new programming language has to be easier, cheaper, and faster than rewriting your entire software stack.
  - throwawaymaths 1y ago
    If you're a cto hired in to a company you need to make your mark somehow.
- jerf 1y ago
  You can always find stories of people moving off of stacks. Sometimes they just legitimately evolved in a direction the stack wasn't the best solution for. Sometimes they should never have picked the stack in the first place. Sometimes a new leader came in who had preconceived notions that the company needed to conform with. You really have to look at the specifics of the story to know if it's relevant to you. In my very opinionated opinion, it's actually reasonably uncommon for me to read a story of someone leaving a stack and not classifying it as one of the things I listed above. Of the cases I would consider "legitimate", it's usually a performance issue; some languages and runtimes are just intrinsically slower than others, or at least, intrinsically slower without an unrealistic amount of effort. (Elixir would be middling here. BEAM is kind of between the dynamic scripting languages and the compiled languages. The interpreter is simple enough that it can run much faster than the dynamic scripting languages but it would be completely unacceptable performance for any compiled language. You can run out of performance in BEAM, but it does take a system that needs performance and some growth to get there.) The rest are probably complexity explosion of some framework, and this is almost always a UI framework problem.
- luckywatcher 1y ago
  Divvy still uses Elixir extensively. I use to work there and still have many contacts there.
  - lytedev 1y ago
    Currently work here and we're definitely still building and supporting Elixir applications and enjoying it!
  - throwawaymaths 1y ago
    Thanks. Updated. Something about the best way to find an answer is to write an incorrect answer on the internet! ;-)

paradox460 1y ago

PagerDuty, Pinterest, TheRealReal, Discord, Cars.com, Bleacher report

giancarlostoro 1y ago
Discord, Facebook Messenger iirc was ejabberd and I think Google Talk was at one point? WhatsApp was ejabberd too iirc.
- paradox460 1y ago
  ESPN also uses it, iirc for their sportsbook system
- fouc 1y ago
  Discord was Elixir (and some Python) from the beginning. WhatsApp started with ejabberd though.

cultofmetatron 1y ago

my startup is using elixir in production for the last 5 years. we are a cloud based restaurant POS. no regrets. the ecosystem has been pretty solid for everything we've wanted to do. Stability/performance has been very good. also: if you're looking for a high profile startup using elixir, supabase is almost entirely elixir and discord uses it for some critical parts.

rched 1y ago
Are you willing to share the name of your startup?
- cultofmetatron 1y ago
  https://blinqme.com/ https://blinqme.com/

atonse 1y ago

We’ve been running elixir in production since 2017. During the pandemic, our elixir app sent/received 45 million text messages, helped schedule 1.5 million vaccination appointments, and a few million COVID testing appointments. It all scaled and performed flawlessly. Any bugs were our fault :-)

fridder 1y ago

Cars.com did a pretty extensive rewrite to Elixir

vishalontheline 1y ago

OkNext.io is built using Elixir and Phoenix framework, if you're considering building a Web App and looking for examples.

ettomatic 1y ago

At the BBC we use Elixir quite extensively. I'll talk about this at ElixirConfEU in a few days if you are interested.

victorbjorklund 1y ago

Cars.com, Discord, Supabase are some of the top of my head. And of course Whatsapp is Erlang (which is same thing but with, imo, more ugly syntax)